CANOEING, SAILING AND MOTOR BOATING. . PRACTICAL BOAT BUILDING AND HANDLING BY LIEUT. WARREN H. MILLER U.S.N.R. AUTHOR OF "RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS," "CAMPING OUT," "THE AMERICAN HUNTING DOG," ETC., ETC. D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY INCORPORATED NEW YORK MCMXXXVII LONDON  COPYRIGHT, 1917, 1919, 1928, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY All rights reserved. This book or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission of the publishers. COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY THE FIELD AND STREAM PUB. CO. COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY OUTING PUBLISHING CO. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The author sailing the Wee Bee, an innovation in jib-headed cruising ketches.   PREFACE THIS book treats of the simple things of life on the water, things that any man may enjoy -- canoes, yachts of moderate dimensions, motor boats. The sea is eternal. Its lure is always the same, and men who live on its shores will forever be satisfying that longing to be afloat on it. Those who do not make it a life's business the sea invites to at least come and play. That play is expensive, most expensive, if one insists on a modern racer. There are plenty of books for those who delight in getting somewhere else on the water in the least possible time; this one is for him who would enjoy a more leisurely cruise, look in at strange ports, canoe strange rivers. There is a deal, however, for the confirmed boat-fusser, for the man who is somewhat handy with tools and likes to build, for the youth whose pocketbook is meager. It is written for the man who wants to own a canoe, a sailboat, a motor boat, yet cannot afford to buy one. Why not build one? The author can never remember the time he was not building a craft of some sort, for the mere fun of it. Most of the cost of boat building is labor. During the past ten years, by way of example, lumber cost for boats has not increased so very much. You can still buy white pine of fair grade for ten cents a board foot; twenty for Number One grade, free from knots. Oak comes at about fifteen to twenty cents. And, when you have said oak and pine, you have covered all the lumber really necessary for a boat. Engines and hardware are not so different in price from what they were. I see no great difference in anchors, cleats, blocks, portholes; can still get a good ten-horse engine for two hundred and fifty dollars, which is just what Go-Sum's engine cost ten years ago. Knockdown boat frames seem to have gone out of favor. I believe there is still a company making a line of them in Bay City, Michigan. Rigs have advanced considerably in the past ten years. The Marconi jibheaded rig has come to stay. It appears nowadays on boats as small as thirteen feet, in the Gloucester Midget class. The difficulties of a smooth track for the hoist have been ironed out. Mast fittings are on the general market for Marconi shrouds. The jib has a tendency to become larger and to be concentrated in one sail. Scientific tests have proved that it is more efficient, area for area, than the mainsail because the latter's mast cuts off so much of the wind efficiency. Aside from the supremacy of the Marconi rig -- which may be stepped in any boat formerly carrying a gaff mainsail -- this book is quite the same aid and guide as it was when first written. And it may not be presumed that the writer has stood still, practically, for the last few years; in fact, he cries guilty to having built a new type of sailing cruiser not described in these pages but worthy of mention here, as his own recent contribution to yachting in general. This cruiser, Wee Bee by name, is 24 feet x 19 feet x 7 feet 6 inches x 4 feet draft, sleeps two men in her 7-foot cabin, and is ketch rigged, with 300 square feet of sail area. Her sails are jibheaded, like the Marconi but hoisted on sliding gunter gaffs cocked straight up. I am no carpenter, but I built her myself, on the urge to own a small but comfortable cruiser that would be "able" on the high seas yet not too much boat. She has been sailing four years and seems a success -- as much as any innovation can be on the eternal and conservative sea. She feeds her crew from a lazarette, or small galley-cabin, placed just forward of the mizzenmast. This holds a two burner galley stove, ice box, water keg with faucet, and racks for plates, provision cans, etc. The cockpit is between the forward bulkhead of the lazarette and the after bulkhead of the cabin. It is 6 feet long and seats three people comfortably on its weather side. An awning goes over it in port, hung from the main boom. Wee Bee is a dry boat, even in 10-foot waves, very easy to handle, and sails herself, on tacks, with helm lashed. You can drop mainsail and reef any time, the jib and mizzen carrying her along on course. I have done it, again and again, when the wind freshened so as to require another reef. Or, if too strong for any mainsail at all, she does well on jib and mizzen alone. The construction is simply Margaret (described early in this book), with three strakes lapping one above the other, ribs every 2 feet, and a skip jack bottom springing from an oak fin keel of 2-inch stock. She carries 400 pounds of lead on the fin keel and 300 pounds of stone ballast inside. A cabin feature worthy of mention is that, while it shows 5 feet length above the coaming, it is 6 feet long down where the berths come. This was done to give more seating room in the cockpit, and was managed by bringing up the after bulkhead some 2 feet, then insetting 14 inches, making a cross-seat for the cockpit, and from there raising the after wall and doors of the cabin. The crew's heads go side by side on pillows under that bulkhead seat. We found that a small porthole was needed in the bulkhead so as to give air there at night. Also this bulkhead makes the whole forward part of the boat water-tight. Wee Bee was knocked down under sail once and filled her cockpit with green water. Dropping mainsail, which can be done instantly with the sliding gunter gaff, she righted and sailed on under jib and mainsail while the crew bailed out. I do not know of any other boat that was ever fairly upset yet got up and went on again without assistance! All due to the cabin and lazarette bulkheads making stern and bow unsinkable. Finally, as an auxiliary, she carries a 2-1/2 hp. Bridgeport motor, offset 6 inches from centerline to pass the rudderhead with its screw. This engine is located in the cockpit under the steering wheel post but to one side of it. It takes up virtually no room and is a great convenience in calms and crowded harbors. I built her myself, boat, sails, spars, and rigging, with a lot of fun and no very great work -- and no difficult fits. Her description forms, rightfully, part of this preface, as witnessing what the author has to say for himself that is new as a boatbuilder. Your attention is called to Wee Bee's picture, which forms our new frontispiece. With that picture to guide him, any one should be able to build her duplicate. She is yours, readers! I claim no patent on her at all, and warn off all unscrupulous manufacturers from commercializing her ! W.H.M. EAST GLOUCESTER, MASS.

CONTENTS.      CHAPTER  PAGE     PART ONE:  SAILING AND BOAT BUILDING     I. THE SAILING BATTEAU 17 II. SAIL DORY, DUCKBOAT AND SKIFF 41 III. CATBOATS AND KNOCKABOUTS 63 IV. BOAT BUILDING 89     PART TWO:  CANOEING AND CRUISING     I. HOW TO RIG AND HANDLE AN OPEN CANOE 119 II. CANOE CRUISING 138 III. HOW TO BUILD A DECKED CANVAS CRUISING CANOE 160 IV. CANOE FITTINGS 177     PART THREE:  MOTOR BOAT MANAGEMENT  AND CONSTRUCTION     I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. CHOOSING YOUR MOTOR BOAT MOTOR BOAT FITTINGS CABIN AND INTERIOR FURNISHINGS YACHT PLUMBING ALL ABOUT YOUR ENGINE ENGINE TROUBLES THE GALLEY OF THE POWER CRUISER GOING INTO COMMISSION HAULING OUT FOR THE WINTER BUILDING A POWER CRUISER FROM KNOCKDOWN FRAMES 189  ILLUSTRATIONS.    [NOTE: many of the original illustrations are very small and blurred and the dimensions, etc., practically unreadable. I have scanned them as large as practical and will replace them with clearer scans if another copy of this book ever comes my way. -- COD]   THE AUTHOR SAILING THE Wee Bee Frontispiece   PART I:   CHAPTER I      THE 13-FT LWL SAILING BATTEAU Margaret   SAILING BATTEAU Margaret   SAILING BATTEAU Margaret   KEEL BOARD FOR 15-FT SAILING BATTEAU   UNDER FULL SAIL   WHISTLING FOR A BREEZE   NAUTICAL NAMES ABOUT A BOAT     PART I:   CHAPTER II         SAIL AND DECK PLANS OF THE   17-FT WHITEHALL BOAT W.B.            BISHOP'S CLASSIC SNEAKBOX   "CENTENNIAL REPUBLIC"     THE BARNEGAT DUCK BOAT   THE 17-FT CLUB SAILING DORY Bee   18-FT DECKED RACING DORIES     PART I:   CHAPTER III     (A) A 16-FT RACING CATBOAT   (G) A 16-FT LAPSTRAKE CATBOAT FOR BOYS   (B) FRAME PLAN AND DECK PLAN   OF 16-FT LAPSTRAKE CATBOAT   (C) A KNOCKABOUT RIG FOR A 22-FT DECKED SKIFF   (D) THE POPULAR 15-RATER KNOCKABOUT   (E) SAIL PLAN OF A 26-FT LOA KNOCKABOUT   FRAMING PLANS AND DECK PLAN   OF 16-FT RACING CATBOAT   KNOTS AND BENDS USED IN SEAMANSHIP   BOAT CONSTRUCTION DETAILS   PART I: CHAPTER IV     SHEER PLAN AND BODY PLAN OF19-FT SAIL DORY   FRAMING DESIGNS FOR A 19-FT SAIL DORY   PART II: CHAPTER I     TO SWING CANOE OVERHEAD   PADDLES LASHED IN POSITION   CARRYING SINGLE   SAIL PLAN Waterat IV   GETTING BREAKFAST IN THE CANOE TARP CAMP   DAN BEARD OR CAMPFIRE TENT   THE FORESTER TENT   THE PERFECT SHELTER TENT   PART II: CHAPTER II     THE CANOE TARP CAMP   IN CAMP IN A CRUISING DECKED CANOE   THE SIDE-OPENING GRUB BAG   READY TO GO OVERBOARD AGAIN   THE Varmint UNDER FULL SAIL   THE Waterat IV WITH SAILS AND COCKPIT TENT   PART II: CHAPTER III     FRAME PLAN   SAIL PLAN   STEM AND STERN CONSTRUCTION, Waterat IV   DECK FRAMING   (BOW) BODY VIEW   AFTER STRETCHING CANVAS   (SIDE) RIBBANDS   ROUNDING THE MARK   THE Varmint UNDER AN ASH BREEZE   PART III: CHAPTERS I, II     A HUSKY LAUNCH FOR BAYS OR LARGE LAKES THE HUNTING CABIN LAUNCH A DEEP SEA MOTOR CRUISER THE AUTHOR'S DEEP-SEA CRUISER Go-Sum THE AUTHOR'S LAKE LAUNCH Adelaide SOME FITTINGS THE MARINE LAW REQUIRES A GOOD DESIGN OF YACHT COMPASS THE VIKING TYPE OF ANCHOR WINDLASS OPEN 25-FT. LAUNCH WITH HUNTING CABIN ADDED CABIN AND DECK SECTION OF THE Go-Sum BENDING THE PLANK FOR THE HUNTING CABIN   CHAPTERS III, IV     CABIN PLAN AND ELEVATION OF THE Go-Sum CABIN PLAN OF A LARGE OCEAN-GOING CRUISER ELEVATION OF GALLEY AND TOILET ROOM OF THE Go-Sum DETAILS OF CABIN CONSTRUCTION ON THE Go-Sum A HOME-MADE FORCE PUMP ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS FOR JUMP SPARK IGNITION   PART IV: CHAPTERS V, VI, VII, VIII     CRANK PISTON AND ENGINE BED A FOUR-HORSE GRAY 2-CYCLE COMPRESSION IN 2-CYCLE ENGINE 3-1/2 H.P. FERRO 2-CYCLE ENGINE GALLEY AND TOILET ROOM PLAN OF THE Go-Sum CAN, CORK AND BARREL BUOYS ANCHOR BITT AND CAPSTAN, COMBINED MUSHROOM MOORING ANCHOR MOORING TACKLE   CHAPTERS IX, X     OVERBOARD WITH A PAIR OF SHEARS CRADLE AND WAYS FOR HAULING OUT DETAILS OF HAULING-OUT WAYS THE FIRST DAY'S WORK ON THE Go-Sum FINISHING THE PLANKING PLANKING THE Go-Sum   © 2002 Craig O'Donnell May not be reproduced without my permission.